London Wider Waste Strategy - London - Greater London Authority

Table 4.10: Eco-sites established with London Remade’s assistance
Materials stream Name, Location and Operator Capacity (tpa)
C&D reprocessing London Remade C&D Eco-Site
(Charlton, Greenwich)
Day Aggregates
300,000
Glass reprocessing London Remade Glass Eco-Site
(Charlton, Greenwich - co-located with C&D
site)
Day Aggregates
30,000
Mixed materials MRF - London Remade Paper Eco Site
400,000 (with plans to
paper, cardboard, (Crayford, Bexley)
increase
plastic bottles and GrosvenorWaste Management with other
capacity to
aluminium cans partners
550tpa by
2005)
Organic waste
composting
Cleanaway Organics Eco Industrial Site
(Rainham, Havering)
Cleanaway (at their landfill site)
35,000
4.172. The Day Aggregates site processes hard demolition materials such as concrete into
aggregates for re-use in construction. The glass plant processes glass into cullet, mainly
for use in road construction applications but also for specialist products such as tiles.
4.173. Grosvenor Waste’s mixed materials site takes dry recyclables from MSW collections
(about 75,000 tpa), mainly from the Western Riverside and East London Waste
Authorities at present, but including some commercial waste (about 25,000 tpa).
However, this may change when new MRFs are built, including one at Smugglers Way
for Western Riverside. London Remade assisted in the investment costs of the
separation facility, as well as the associated educational facilities. The recyclables are
separated for reprocessing at other sites, generally outside London. The facility is being
redeveloped to increase dry recyclable capacity to 150,000 tpa by 2005.
4.174. Most of the remaining site capacity (about 300,000 tpa) processes paper waste from the
printing industry and other businesses. The paper is sorted into various grades and
transported to a variety of regional, national and international reprocessors. The plant is
fully operational at its current capacity, however, a company representative indicated
that there is substantial capacity for expansion of the site to receive a range of other
recyclables from both large contracts and small businesses. The company is considering
the business case for various expansion options.
4.175. Both of these companies developed their operations as an integrated part of an existing
business, rather than as a stand-alone operation. Grosvenor Waste Management’s
mixed materials facility works well with the company’s existing paper recycling business
and Day Aggregates’ C&D recycling plant fits with its construction and haulage industry
background.
4.176. The Cleanaway organics site at Havering was used as a demonstration site for
composting and although London Remade’s involvement has now ended Cleanaway
continues to use the site for composting organic waste. While organic waste processing
in London has focused on composting, other options are available. In particular, biogas
production from kitchen wastes and other putrescibles is well established in Germany
and is highly relevant to commercial sector wastes such as restaurant waste. A biogas
plant operates at Hoslworthy in Devon, processing cow slurry and abattoir wastes to
generate electricity which is fed into the national grid and producing a fertiliser for use
on local farms. Substantial EU funding was required to make the plant viable.
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